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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2084120, member: 19463&quot;]Great coin but I&#039;m having trouble with the attribution details.&nbsp; The figure is the personification of the city Alexandria, not Alexander.&nbsp; I read the year as delta (4).&nbsp; Emmett lists this reverse as issued in years 4, 5 and 7.&nbsp; Year one portraits tend to be a bit more harsh like the one below (different reverse) and use a longer legend.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]388457[/ATTACH] </p><p>Unfortunately Emmett has an error repeated at the top of pages 174 and 175 listing the year 4 legend as ending EV while your coin and mine below (again different reverse) show EVC.&nbsp; To make matters worse, he shows at the top of page 173 a photo of an obverse labeled as year 4 but clearly having a legend he lists as year one.&nbsp; His legends listed do not include any attributed to years 2 or 3.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]388458[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If your coin was in the Emmett collection, it can&#039;t be an unlisted so we only have the text being in error as an explanation.&nbsp; I see this as a place illustrating the need to have someone else who knows the series read your book before publication.&nbsp; I do not know enough about these not to be confused.&nbsp;&nbsp; It would be nice to hear a report of how these are reported by other catalogs of the series but I only own Emmett.&nbsp; Overall, I consider Emmett a great book but we have to expect a few hundred errors to creep in to any compilation that size.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I know several of you have some interest in Alexandrian coins so PLEASE help me understand what I have missed here.&nbsp; I see this as one of the best Valentine&#039;s gifts on record.&nbsp; Congratulations![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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